When she receives the ring from Gerald, she is immediately 'excited', and Priestley shows this in her speech with the use of dashes as she asks 'Mummy - isn't it a beauty?'. She shows appreciation of the 'perfect' ring to Gerald which shows she really is 'pleased with life' but almost possessed by Gerald.Although the Mr and Mrs Birling have been portrayed as arrogant, Sheila is contrasted to show compassion towards the conditions of the workers immediately when she hears about her father's treatment of Eva Smith - when she says 'these girls aren't cheap labour - they're people'. This shows how at the start of the play she is the only character so far that is capable of change, after Mr Birling denies all responsibility of the death of Eva Smith. Sheila is devastated when she realises her part in Eva Smith's death, she feels full of guilt for
Even when Helga tries to get help from Uncle Peter she is rejected by his wife, Mrs. Nilssen, who tells her directly "Well, he isn't exactly your uncle, is he? Your mother wasn't married, was she? I mean, to your father?...And you mustn't come here any more. It-well, frankly, it isn't convenient." (Q.
Tea Cake is really affectionate with Janie and even combs her hair and picks the dandruff out. This shows how confortable they are together already. Tea Cake is giving Janie that deep connection with a man she always wanted. Tea Cake thinks Janie is very beautiful and tells her; “You got de world in uh jug
She said “There were things Amanda wasn’t telling her.” Amanda didn’t share a lot of her secrets with the people in the group which just shows that the group didn’t really know her at all. Kate and Joe were supposed to be Amanda’s closest friends in the group. Kate knew Amanda was acting strange and there were things she wasn’t telling her. Kate just assumed that it had to do with Amanda’s ex-boyfriend, Steve and though nothing of it. She never asked her what was wrong.
It was the fact that Curley’s wife didn’t even have any attraction to him and only married him because she realized her loss of her American dream as an actress not because of a love or real attraction to him. If she hadn’t married him she would have never been on the ranch and never would have been murdered by Lennie. The relationship between Lennie and Curley’s wife could have been avoided if she had listened to her husband and stayed inside the house. If she would of listened then she wouldn’t of even really met Lennie. She died in the book because she chose what she didn’t really desire and didn’t listen to nobody which was her own
She feels as if her family is oppressive to her. One was Dee tried removing herself from her family was by changing her name completely. Instead of Dee, she changed her name to Wangero Leewanika Kemanjo. She did not care that she was named after her aunt. She wants nothing to do with her family what so ever.
Also, this meant that the married woman had no control over the legal authority of their families. In the rare cases of separation, the fathers had custody of the children. Also, when a young woman was to be married, the only freedom she had was to choose to turn down an offensive suitor selected by her father. Another difference between men and women’s legal status in the colonies was that women were not allowed to preach religion, only men were allowed to do that. That was the legal status of women in the American colonies.
However for both Bronte and Austen, relationships were unconventional for their time, as neither of the women married. Austen’s novel was much more widely accepted, as the heroine does not condone the inappropriate relationship that begins to form between Isabella and Captain Tilney. “His behaviour was so incompatible with a knowledge of Isabella’s engagement” Austen is satirical and ironic Cathy and Heathcliff’s relationship becomes strained and unobtainable because of the pressures society imposes on Cathy to marry for status and weath. Their family and society forbid Cathy and Heathcliff’s love throughout the novel. Critic Suzanne Birkett suggest ‘She later marries Edgar and comes to feel that she is imprisoned by society’s rules.’ As although Cathy has made a wise choice in marrying Edgar because ‘He will be rich’, her forbidden love for Heathcliff still hinders her when Heathcliff once again returns in chapter ten.
One way Austen shows this is through Mr and Mrs Bennet, Mrs Bennet does not understand her husband Mr Bennet, and whilst Mrs Bennet’s aim in life is to get her daughters married to rich men, in contrast, Mr Bennet is not interested in family affairs and does not seem to think much of his daughters in general. 'They are all silly and ignorant like other girls.' Austen presents Mr Bennet and his behaviour as being wholly disinterested shown by his generalisation saying they are “all silly” suggesting a lack of attachment, his goal isn’t to get his daughters married and so doesn’t impact upon it. Unlike Mrs Bennet, who embarrassing behaviour shows an extreme contrast to her husband; her behaviour, ironically, does more to harm her daughters' chances at finding husbands than it does to help. "What is Mr. Darcy to me, pray, that I should be afraid of him?"
Janie’s first two husbands, Logan and Jody, never allow Janie to reach the desirable horizon. They lock her up in the present state of miserable reality and restrict her from inner growth. They only do what is conformed by the society, considering it to be true happiness. Janie is not allowed to speak up because, according to the society, it is not appropriate for a woman to engage in conversations that should be left for men to bother about.